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During Thursday’s White House Internet Town Hall Meeting, President Obama recalled the family’s fight for the life of their youngest daughter when she was just three-months-old. Sasha Obama, who is now 7, was hospitalized with potentially-fatal meningitis just after she was born.

“When Sasha – “our little precious pea” – was just three months old, she was hospitalized with life-threatening meningitis….Very dangerous,” the President told a nurse in the audience.

“The doctors did a terrific job,” he continued. “But frankly, it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap, and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears.”

Fortunately, Sasha recovered from the meningitis with the help of her nurses.

“I’m biased toward nurses,” he said. “I just like nurses.”